there s no one in charge. when we did this during the told war, the focal point for coordinating efforts. actors, musicians, artists, they were ambassadors. they did what they did and we put that out there and we did democracy pro motion. if you look today, what does the united states really want? we are not promoting democracy around the world. we don t really have a message we want to send and we don t have good messages to do it. there is no coordinating body. the u.s. information agency is gone. the mission is sort of broken down to state department, which has been very defunded and a lot of staff have been taken away. the department of defense has it in a military context and a lot of regions and from the cyber space angle, the intelligence committee is very scaried to do this because you re not allowed to influence americans on these platforms. you kind find in the audience who is american or foreigner and find out what we re trying to promote.
it comes down to we don t know what we believe in and don t know what we want. couple that with the track record of the fact of democracy promotion in the middle east is suspicious as well. whenever the u.s. tries to do something that the good. we talked about this with programs and channels like that were launched in the middle east, a channel designed to put out this pro-american content so to speak, but it doesn t resinate with that part of the world. we have our brand, america s brand has been tarnished. it s a tougher sell, so to speak. we re just not that good at our propaganda efforts apparently. and i don t know if that s necessarily a bad thing. i think it s good that american culture and american art resinates far more than anything that we re disseminating by the u.s. government.